Hook for garments



No. 626,69l. Patented-June" 13, I899;

J. M. GUILBERT.

HOOK FOR GARMENTS.

(Application filed Sept. 22, 1894.)

(No Model.)

19' 44420026 3 *0 a k; au fff Q m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MURRAY GUILBERT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,691, dated June 13, 1899. Application filed September 22, 1894:. Serial No. 523,826. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/007 12 Be it known that 1, JOHN MURRAY GUIL- EERT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks for Garments, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a hook for a garment or other purpose formed with a guard back of the hook proper and a stop or head on the end of said guard for limiting the outward motion of the same, preventing said end from being uncovered, serving to confine the guard in its established position, and avoiding the presentation of a cut or sharp edge to the hand or garment.

Figures 1 and 2 represent elevations of opposite sides of a' hook embodying my invention. Figs. 3 and 4: represent perspective views thereof. Fig. 5 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 6' represents a longitudinal section on line w 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 7 represents an end view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

, Referring to the drawings, A designates a garment-hook, which consists of the back B, the hook proper or bill O, the fastening-eyes D, the guard E, and the pin-head E, which partsare formed of a continuous piece of wire.

The back B consists of the side pieces or lengths G, which join at one end the hook proper, C, and at the other end the eyes D. Extending from one of the eyes D is a length H, which interlies said side pieces G and has a portion near its terminal bent outwardly toward the hook proper, forming a jaw with the latter and producing the guard E. The head F is on the terminal of the jaw behind the side pieces G and abuts against the adjacent portions of said pieces, so that it cannot be drawn in front of the same.

It will be seen that when the eye is introduced between the hook proper, C, and the guard E the latter yields and permits said eye to be seated in the bend of the hook, said guard then closing, whereby the eye is prevented from accidental disconnection from the hook, and the garment or article to which the hook and eye are applied will remain closed; but as the head F is on the end of the guard rearward of the side pieces G, as has been stated, the eye cannot enter behind the guard and improperly engage therewith, and the guard cannot be displaced or distorted by any outward draft, as the same is resisted by the abutting action of the head on the back of the pieces G. Furthermore, the guard does not present any out edge or end of the wire to the hand or garment'a feature of importance, as is evident.

The head may be formed by pressing, squeezing, swaging, or otherwise converting the metal at the end of the guard into the shape of such head, which is adapted to rest against the side pieces G, as has been stated, without materially projecting rearward there from, the shape of said head being variable.

Having thus described my invention, what 7 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A garment-hook having a guard for the bill thereof, continuous of a piece of the back of the hook, and a pin-head on the end of said guard behind said back, substantially as dc scribed.

2. A garment-hook consisting of the back B, the bill O, the fastening-eyes D, the tongue H between the sides of the back, the guard E on the tongue I-I opposite to said bill, and the pin-head F on the end of said guard rearward of said back, abutting against the same, substantially as described.

JOHN MURRAY GUILBERT.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, R. H. GRAESER. 

